Re: Re: Charms for friends

From: Tony Davis <gallows_brother_at_...>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:28:44 -0800 (PST)


If Greg Stafford wants Glorantha to be that way, he should say so. It should be in the rules.

So far, I haven't seen it.

Sometimes I really think that Greg doesn't understand fully what he's wrought.

t.

>
> >From: Stephen Tempest <e-g_at_...>
> >
> >But mixing religions was extremely common in more
> ancient times - it's
> >only really the Judaic tradition that insists on
> exclusive worship of
> >a single god.�
>
> You must be assuming that magic works in the real
> world. Because otherwise
> what would it matter who worshipped what? The
> question is who can you get
> magic from. So let's assume for argument's sake that
> these people could get
> magic (they certainly thought they could). What does
> that mean about the
> universe? One of two things:
>
> 1. The gods of our universe don't mind people
> worshipping other dieties
> much.
> 2. The Romans and other such cultures didn't get any
> available magic because
> of their worship of multiple dieties.
>
> Basically either the Gloranthan dieties are
> different somewhat than our real
> world dieties, or similar, and the cultures that
> you're citing are simply
> all mixed up and don't get any magic.
>
> Now, that's just Greg's interpretation of his
> universe, you can easily make
> that vary. It's just that this is how it's been
> explained to me. Which is
> not to say that all dieties prevent worship of all
> other dieties or spirits,
> etc. Simply that there are a lot of restrictions
> that they individually
> have, especially outside of their pantheon/tradition
> (though that's not a
> hard boundary, from what I gather).
>
> Now, where those restrictions lie in the canon is
> even less well laid out.
> Do Erissa and Challana Arroy allow mutual
> worshippers? Or are they at odds
> with each other as enemy gods because they ally with
> different gods and
> compete to control the Aspect of Healing? (This is a
> rhetorical question,
> but if somebody feels a burning need to answer, go
> ahead). If there is an
> answer to this question, I don't know where it's to
> be found. So if you want
> to portray them as allowing mutual worship, there's
> not much stopping you
> (now somebody will point out that they battled to
> the death in the
> lightbringer's quest or something, I'm sure).
> Largely it's up to you to
> figure out what gods allow mutual worship.
>
> If somebody were to make up a chart with what they
> thought were the gods
> that allowed mutual worship, that would either be a
> great boon, or a great
> bane. I'm not sure which. :-)
>
> This extends not simply to use of magic - you can't
> con your way into a
> religion either. Because the initiation allows the
> god to test you and tell
> the priests/spirit-talkers involved whether or not
> you're actually worthy.
> That is, the same restrictions on magic are
> restrictions on gaining the
> knowlege of a religion through joining. On the other
> hand, if all you want
> is "Know Myths of Buserian" then you can probably
> simply read up on it
> somewhere. And "Friend of the Buserians" is probably
> feasible.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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